160 THE ZOOLOOIOAL SOCIETY. 



The bust, by E. Roscoe Mullins, is a copy of that by Chantrey, 

 which is now in the possession of the donor's son, Canon 

 Stamford Raffles Flint, of Nansawsan, Cornwall. An engraving 

 of the original forms the frontispiece to Lady Raffles' " Memoir." 



The covered bandstand, erected in 1880, was the gift of 

 Mr. Charles Henry Gatty, F.Z.S., of Felbridge Park, East 

 Grinstead. In the south-east corner, near the reservoir, ground 

 was cleared for the new reptile house. The Council reported 

 that plans were in preparation, adding that these would require 

 careful study, as the subject was a difficult one, and the only 

 building of the kind yet attempted was that in the Jardin des 

 Plantes at Paris. Some small studies were erected at the back 

 of the Prosector's office for the use of naturalists engaged in 

 special investigations. 



Numerous important additions were made to the Menagerie 

 stock in the form of species exhibited for the first time. In 

 1871 the anoa, the dwarf buffalo of Celebes, was introduced, 

 but this species has not thriven in England as it does on the 

 Continent, where it breeds pretty freely. Baird's tapir and the 

 Cape sea-lion were exhibited ; the former was a young animal, 

 of considerable interest in that it showed the longitudinal 

 striping, which is lost in mature individuals. 



A hippopotamus calf was born on February 21, 1871, but 

 died from inanition two days later, the dam having shown no 

 disposition to suckle it. The skin was mounted for the British 

 Museum, the skeleton and viscera are preserved in the Museum 

 of the Royal College of Surgeons, and a plaster cast of the 

 cadaver, made and presented to the Society by Frank Buck- 

 land, is still to be seen in the giraffe house. 



Two rhinoceroses were purchased in 1872, both at first 

 believed to be of the Sumatran form. One, for which Jamrach 

 was paid £1,250, was obtained in Chittagong in 1868. The 

 story of her capture is thus told in Sterndale's " Mammals of 

 India": 



She had got into a quicksand, and had exhausted herself by floundering 

 about. The natives contrived to attach two ropes to her, and, hauling her 

 out, managed to make her fast to a tree. Next morning they found her so 

 refreshed and vigorous that they were afraid to do anything more to her, 

 and so sent messengers to the magistrate of Chittagong to report the 



